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Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk’s email and report on what he did last week? To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:

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Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 77 comments

Hegseth confirms he fired JAGs for purely nefarious reason

submitted 7 hours ago • 8 comments

This, from my colleague @pamherd.bsky.social , is a great piece about Trump’s attack on disabled people, and the real harm it is causing, including to one of UM’s outstanding students. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 7 hours ago • 8 comments

Dear Manager; 1. I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains 2. I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways 3. I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests 4. I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans 5. I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard

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5 things I did last week Musk 1. Successfully asked you to rehire 300 nuclear & avian flu workers you “accidentally” fired 2. Pressed you to pay attention to rising household costs 3. Stood up for vets 4. Fought against your tax cuts for the rich 5. Stood with 🇺🇦 instead of🇷🇺

submitted 17 hours ago • 176 comments

Five things I accomplished last week: 1. Sued Musk & DOGE (repeatedly) 2. Got Musk blocked out of Treasury 3. Sued Trump (repeatedly) 4. Helped persuade SCOTUS to leave anti-Trump injunction in place 5. Got booked @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social Join us at 9 AM ET Sunday morning to discuss!

submitted 22 hours ago • 357 comments

On this day in 2020, two white men killed Ahmaud Arbery, a young unarmed Black man out jogging. Local officials lied and did not hold the men accountable for months, until a video was released.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

If you are engaging Trumpworld’s anti DEI agenda in good faith about ineffective training programs or wokeness run amok, you are missing the real story. If you think it is about merit, look at the morons he in installing in place of experienced leaders. It is about rolling back civil rights.

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Who are the undocumented immigrants in Texas? www.texastribune.org/2025/02/17/t...

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NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

submitted 21 hours ago • 86 comments

“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 19 hours ago • 582 comments

What a loss to fire someone with his experience, integrity, thoughtfulness, and empathy.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

another excellent brief essential essay in thread-form from josh

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 213 comments

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

Hope to send you (Uncle Sam) even larger payments (taxes) than we did in 2024. Wish more CEOs acted in this spirit

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A long indispensable thread showing the 80 million people on Medicaid by Congressional district.

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Listened twice through tonight to David Bowie’s final masterpiece Blackstar. I love this album so much and so amazing he left us this as he passed away (and his previous album The Next Day also incredible).

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Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

submitted 1 day ago • 527 comments

The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

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"Boos and shouts erupted around the room. When Grothman praised orders ending birthright citizenship and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, the crowd only got louder." www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

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So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 1 day ago • 161 comments

This is a big one. Hope it holds up and know this is not only suit but it seemed insane to me that the federal govt could restrict what nonprofits do with non-federal money and their speech

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 984 comments

This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1090 comments

A massive, self-inflicted wound on American higher education.

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BREAKING: @pogo.org sued Trump and DOGE in federal court in D.C. today over the administration's efforts to treat DOGE records as presidential records not subject to FOIA for now. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

it's true civic degeneracy. no better than eating fritos and watching snuff films in the basement with a needle in your arm.

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Trump Moves Cause Widespread Fear Among Nonprofits, survey by @comnetwork.org finds — our latest via @npquarterly.bsky.social #npsky #nonprofitsky #nonprofits #nonprofit nonprofitquarterly.org/trump-moves-...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Fellow Blueskyers, my two cents - we need more amplification and less snark on here. Snark interferes with us telling our story and thus helps MAGA. I realize these are tough times but if we are to win we need to be smart, strategic and disciplined at all times. Onward - S

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

NEW Republican Congressman Troy Balderson, who reps an R+18 district in Ohio, says President Trump’s executive orders are “getting out of control.” “Congress has to decide whether or not the Departmnet of Education goes away. Not the president. Not Elon Musk. Congress decides,” Balderson said.

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Steve Bannon, after calling for Trump to be President for life, did a Nazi salute on stage at CPAC. Nazism has officially taken over the GOP. The few remaining conservatives have a choice: either leave the party and obstruct it—or choose to be complicit.

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

There is zero ambiguity here. It’s nauseating.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

Musk censoring pushback against his policies so fiercely you would think it was a former partner asking him to do Dad stuff

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How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

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NEW: “The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed.” Because who cares about accountability in law enforcement, amirite? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 121 comments

🧐 Context on Elon Musk funding Brad Schimel to ensure a GOP majority in Wisconsin Supreme Court race

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I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments